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...shortly after the Old City was captured by Israeli troops in 1967. Rubinger has kept up with the trio; one is a gynecologist, another manages a folk-dance troupe and the third is a farmer. One of his most affecting shots depicts a boatload of exhilarated Moroccan Jews catching sight of Israel for the first time. "Photographs, like wine, improve with age," says Rubinger. "My favorites are the ones taken years ago that show human beings, having survived horrors, being remade into new men and women." Rubinger has taken some of his least favorite photographs during the Palestinian uprising...
...problem is to close the roads -- and no food gets through. Airlifting is far more reliable: the giant C-130s can fly across the bone-white moonscape from Massawa to the interior city of Mekele in just half an hour. The unloading crews at the airstrip are a sight to behold. "Move it, move it, go ahead forward, go ahead forward, time is passing, time is passing," chanted a group of 15 barefoot men two weeks ago as they quickly emptied a transport of 22 tons of grain contributed by the European Community. Still, there is no guarantee that...
...Administration and the public alike have done their best to draw attention elsewhere. North and the other characters in the Iran-contra drama dropped from sight after last summer's congressional hearings, and the House- Senate investigation seemed to come to an inconclusive end marked by partisan sniping. The Wall Street Crash and last December's Reagan-Gorbachev summit concentrated the nation's mind on larger matters. If the Iran-contra scandal has been a refrain in Democratic primary campaigns, and a stick that rivals have used to attack Bush, voters have seemed more interested in determining who can best...
Cleaning up after the onslaught is often quite a chore. "Besides having to clean up the usual leftovers of beer cans, maids often discover the unwelcome sight of human leftovers," says Risberg. "The number of complaints from maids increases proportionately with the number of teenagers down here...
...always will be room for more open-mindedness among all populations. Hopefully, the debate of the last several weeks has encouraged this. Isolated incidents have occurred which have been painful to those at the receiving end of mistreatment. At the same time, however, none of us should lose sight of the overall receptiveness of views apparent both at Kirkland and throughout Harvard. Do not discount the wide variety of interests, opinions and attitudes which are openly represented and enthusiastically supported...